Help with derringer!!!

I have a derringer pistol that says, Hopkins & Allen Arms Co (Norwick, Conn. USA). It has an ivory handle and shoots 22 caliber. Can anyone tell me about this gun and what it's worth? It was my grandfathers. Thank You!!!

Jan Ayers, welcome to the Forum! Hopkins & Allen made a great many different types of guns over the life of the company (1870-something to 1917). We would need to see pictures of your gun to tell you anything about it, particularly its value. It's pretty easy to do if you follow the instructions in the "sticky" post at the top of this forum.

There is one type of H&A derringer that is fairly valuable. It looks like this:

H&A made inexpensive, utilitarian firearms, and few of their guns have significant collector value today. One that does is the small .22 "parrot beak" single shot derringer, but we would need good pictures to determine if that is the model you have.

Ok, it's a Colt New Line, basically. I'd agree that it's not "really" considered a derringer by most collectors, howver, you're right on the size. Just a bit larger. I think it's actually the cylinder type operation that takes it out of the derringer range for me.

Which is funny, because then what do we call the NAA line? I don't refer to them as derringers, even though they are very, very small (and getting larger!).
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